Fedora 17 Update: sssd-1.8.0-6.fc17

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-2196
2012-02-22 17:43:35
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Name        : sssd
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 1.8.0
Release     : 6.fc17
URL         : http://fedorahosted.org/sssd/
Summary     : System Security Services Daemon
Description :
Provides a set of daemons to manage access to remote directories and
authentication mechanisms. It provides an NSS and PAM interface toward
the system and a pluggable backend system to connect to multiple different
account sources. It is also the basis to provide client auditing and policy
services for projects like FreeIPA.

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Update Information:

Changes in 1.7.0

* Support for case-insensitive domains

* Support for multiple search bases in the LDAP provider

* Support for the native FreeIPA netgroup implementation

* Reliability improvements to the process monitor

* New DEBUG facility with more consistent log levels

* New tool to change debug log levels without restarting SSSD

* SSSD will now disconnect from LDAP server when idle

* FreeIPA HBAC rules can choose to ignore srchost options for significant performance gains

* Assorted performance improvements in the LDAP provider (reducing disk-writes to the cache)

* Fixed upgrade issue with search bases.

* Fixed memory corruption issue causing random LDAP failures

* Found and fixed one more issue related to the search base setup

Changes in 1.8.0beta3

* Support for the service map in NSS

* Support for setting default SELinux user context from FreeIPA

* Support for retrieving SSH user and host keys from LDAP (Experimental)

* Support for caching autofs LDAP requests (Experimental)

* Support for caching SUDO rules (Experimental) 

* Fix two minor manpage bugs

* Include the IPA AutoFS provider

* Fixed a regression in group enumeration since 1.7.0

* Fixed several memory-corruption bugs

* Finalized the ABI for the autofs support

* Fixed a regression in the proxy provider

Changes in sssd-1.8.0-5.fc17.beta3.1:

* Remove changes to switch the default credential cache location. This has been deferred to Fedora 18

Changes in sssd-1.8.0-6.fc17

* Assorted stabilization fixes
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #743133 - Performance regression with Kerberos authentication against AD
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743133
  [ 2 ] Bug #773706 - SSSD fails during autodetection of search bases for new LDAP features
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773706
  [ 3 ] Bug #741981 - Separate Cache Timeouts for SSSD
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741981
  [ 4 ] Bug #797968 - sssd_be: The requested tar get is not configured is logged at each login
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=797968
  [ 5 ] Bug #754114 - [abrt] sssd-1.6.3-1.fc16: ping_check: Process /usr/sbin/sssd was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754114
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update sssd' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
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